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• Place of birth:

  Tokyo, Japan

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• Education:

  March 1990,	B.S. in Physics,	Department of Physics, University of Tokyo
  March 1992,	M.S. in Physics,	Department of Physics, University of Tokyo (Supervisor: Prof. Masuo Suzuki)
  March 1995,	Ph.D. in Physics,	Department of Physics, University of Tokyo (Supervisor: Prof. Masuo Suzuki)

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• Research experience:

  1995-1997,	JSPS Post-Doctoral Fellow in Institute of Physics, University of Tsukuba
  1997-2003,	Research Associate in Institute of Physics, University of Tsukuba
  (1999-2000),	Visiting Researcher in Department of Physics, Harvard University (Japanese Overseas Research Fellow by Monbusho)
  2003-2004,	Research Scientist in Condensed Matter Theory Lab., RIKEN
  2004-present,	Senior Research Scientist in Condensed Matter Theory Lab., RIKEN

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